: This is a position paper introducing blob computing: A Blob is a generic primitive used to structure a uniform computing substrate into an easier-to-program parallel virtual mach...
—IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) uses a binary exponential backoff algorithm to arbitrate simultaneous channel access by multiple stations. When a station sen...
This paper presents two case studies of informal group communication using multimedia conferencing that supports various media including video, audio and chat. The studies provide...
Abstract The increased usage of directional methods of communications to improve medium reuse, network capacity, and bandwidth has prompted research into leveraging directionalit...
Bow-Nan Cheng, Murat Yuksel, Shivkumar Kalyanarama...
Recent work by our group at Motorola Labs has focused on applying the principles of ambient interfaces to the domain of mobile communications. Our methods incorporate both formati...
Frank Bentley, Joe Tullio, Crysta J. Metcalf, Drew...